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Hualalai — Hawaii island’s third youngest, third largest and third most active volcano — is dwarfed by her sisters, Mauna Kea to the north and Mauna Loa to the south.
Nevertheless, Hualalai created much of the land that now supports the majority of West Hawaii’s population and infrastructure.
Dark, river-like flows of hardened lava, produced by Hualalai as recently as 1801, meander downslope from cinder cones dotting the volcano’s flank.